In Memory of the 10th June 1838 Myall Creek Massacre of the Wirrayaraay People, Aboriginal Australians.

Waterloo & Myall Creek Massacres reconciliation.
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Return to Myall Creek has been painted in artist's soft pastels, is a tribute to the reconciliation process for the Myall Creek massacre.

On the 10 th June 1838, a brutal massacre of a family of 28 old men, women, children and babies of the Wirrayaraay and Gamilaroi peoples took place at Myall Creek.

In a following court case, seven stock-men were hung for participating in the brutal massacre. Descendants of Aboriginal people who survived the massacre form part of the Myall Creek Memorial Committee, which co-manages the Myall Creek Memorial site. 

'Mounted Police and Blacks', an 1852 lithograph by W. L. Walton, depicting the killing of Aboriginal warriors at Slaughterhouse Creek by colonial police troopers.

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